Meet the Elephants at the Elephant Conservation Adventure

In the 1900s, there were about 100,000 elephants in Thailand. Today, there are only 5,000 left (3,000 which are domesticated, and only 2,000 in the wild). As in other parts of Asia, elephants have traditionally been used to work with humans in the logging industry. In 1989, however, this industry was banned in Thailand due to deforestation and thousands of …

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Elephant Conservation Adventure Thailand

    Thailand was amazing! We all really enjoyed the volunteer program, but even more so the people that ran it and the other volunteers that were there, everyone was so friendly and our coordinators were hilarious!!! Wouldn’t change it for the world.  There were just the 5 elephants and we saw them 4days of the 5 we were there …

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